Bug 1548

Summary:	wifi issues
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Timothée Giet <animtim>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tmb
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Timothée Giet 2011-06-03 12:10:00 CEST

Description of problem:
I've 2 wifi devices, none is working.
Both have open-source drivers.

First, the wifi integrated in my laptop (HP dv7-3145ef - wifi BCM43225)
is listed in my networks, but no "wlan0" on the right.
And if I click on it, I've a pop-up saying (in french, as I am) "Impossible de trouver l'interface réseau pour le périphérique sélectionné (utilisation du pilote bcrm80211)."
So I can't connect with it.

Then I've a TP-Link TL-WN727N, when I connect it is listed in the networks, it has "wlan0" on the right, but it doesn't see anything, clicking "rafraichir"
has no effect.
I know this one works on Ubuntu, just have to blacklist some other drivers there to get it working, but I don't know how to blacklist drivers on Mageia (no /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf ?), so it may be this. 


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Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2011-06-03 12:22:41 CEST

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> I've 2 wifi devices, none is working.
> Both have open-source drivers.
> 
> First, the wifi integrated in my laptop (HP dv7-3145ef - wifi BCM43225)
> is listed in my networks, but no "wlan0" on the right.
> And if I click on it, I've a pop-up saying (in french, as I am) "Impossible de
> trouver l'interface réseau pour le périphérique sélectionné (utilisation du
> pilote bcrm80211)."
> So I can't connect with it.

This might be have missing firmware, so add online medias and install kernel-firmware-extra.

> 
> Then I've a TP-Link TL-WN727N, when I connect it is listed in the networks, it
> has "wlan0" on the right, but it doesn't see anything, clicking "rafraichir"
> has no effect.
> I know this one works on Ubuntu, just have to blacklist some other drivers
> there to get it working, but I don't know how to blacklist drivers on Mageia
> (no /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf ?), so it may be this. 
> 

You can add the file yourself and it will be used.

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Timothée Giet 2011-06-03 12:50:15 CEST

Yeah! Thank-you for the tip!
indeed the bcm43225 only needed kernel-firmware-extra to work.

(Sorry to have reported a bug, I should have asked in the forum... You can close it, although I didn't re-test the TP-Link with added blacklist.conf, but it should work.)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME